As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

You’re young and you have all your life ahead of you.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.