[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

I was the only guy who is referred to as Mr. Smith in the New York Times and in the same week as Sexy Rexy in some teen magazine.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.

I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

I'm too much of a planner. I would have been a dentist; that's what I was thinking of being. Dr. Rex, open wide and say "Ah." I think I'd look good in a smock.

Come, Leigh, come with me...

I don't know about forever, but I love you just the same.

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.