We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

You don't stay the hottest guy forever unless you're, um, Dionysus.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.