I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.