It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

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 do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

My fame is due to broadcast television.

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.