I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

...Because I have a a serious medical condition. Gabe shook his head ruefully. It's called foot-in-mouth disease.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

Unfortunately [René] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes, he'd say, you know, it might be ruinous for us economically.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.