You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

Writing is still on my slate.

We are all artists

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

There is always someone there to lend a hand.

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."