By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

Interesting people always have a past.

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.