If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.