I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you.

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.