You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

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

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.