I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.