The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

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.

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

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

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

Man need discomfort for awaken.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

A man's country is the world.