Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

Life is best when you are in love.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

You haven't been fired, " Mary said with a sigh. "You always jump to the worst possible conclusion. Why on earth would you be getting f

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.

My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.