I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

I learned what love is from loving you.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.