It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

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.

All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.