I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing!

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.