I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Do you earn for others to burn? Why not GIVE as you LIVE, so that when you die, the world will cry.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.