There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

I love being a part of the country-music community.