The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.
I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.
I'm alive. That's a good thing.
And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.
Clothes that a wallflower would like, that's not my thing. I like people who look interesting.
When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding myself that, oh, yes, I wrote that book.
Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.
So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.
On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.
I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.
The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.
