You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

I can’t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.