I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.

If you're a square peg in a society full of round holes, it's time to change the playing board.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.