Acting is very immediate.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Don't sabotage your energy, focus on expanding your energy bubble.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

What made me empathic was my depressions.

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.