My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

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.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

You were the one girl I wanted who wanted nothing to do with me.

Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

I want to see unity. I want to see peace. I want people to be free to speak, be educated. I want people to be able to feed themselves.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn