As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.

PRUNING can be PAINFUL yet it brings PROSPERITY

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.