The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

The depth of my feelings is proportional to the depth of the color.

...in the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?