Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I have a natural swagger.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

Palestine is the anvil of our souls.

everything happens for a reason.

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?"Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.