After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

I don't even get an allowance.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.