My family is well, and that's what's important.

If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

Sometimes I just wonder.Do we believe that God revolves around us?Or, do we believe that we revolve around God?These are staggering questions.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

I would feel safe with my husband as president. I think Barack Obama is a fine man. I think Michelle Obama is a fine woman. This is about who would be better and I think my husband would be better.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.