Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

I teach that all men are mad.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

Never answer a hypothetical question.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.