The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

On the bank of an ocean, let your mind fly in the cloudless sky while your heart enjoys the love of the sun.

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."