Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

I love Mexico. I mean, Mexico, I have thousands of people from Mexico that work for me. Thousands. Hispanics.

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking "Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?"

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.