In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

An angry person is always full of poison.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.