To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

it’s a lifetime process to figure out how to fill your soul.

They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

We need practice solving problems.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in Multiplicity.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.