Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.