Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

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.

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.