The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.