The fact is, I have a great home and I like to have people come up. I meet enough people just doing my grocery shopping; I don't need to go out and meet any more people.

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.

You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you.

Every moment is beautiful

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

Now that I'm here, all I wanna do is get better. I wanna be the best I can be.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.