I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I have a natural swagger.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live