From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.

I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.