So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.