Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

Whenever I eat a meal, I always leave the last bite on my plate. I don't know why, it's just a thing with me.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.