It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment" Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Overnight success stories take a long time.