Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

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.

I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff… and I want in..

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form.

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.