My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.