I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.