I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

I am a virtuous woman.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.