I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

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.

We particularly like people who value us highly.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.