My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.