I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.

I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

The computer is a moron.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.