I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.