People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

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.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.