I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.

Optimists anticipate problems, welcome them, and challenge them. Thus, eventually they defeat their problems.

Joking with somebody's emotions makes you cold person.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.