Time is the devourer of all things.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

On my show, I’m definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

Talk about culture shock. I went from vespers and early to rise, early to bed and prayer sessions, to pot, theater, staying up late and, you know.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn’t wait to go to work in the morning.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

I don’t think the way I look at myself has changed.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it’s true in my head, that I do good work.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique...

That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I’m really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I don’t know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn’t just art, its about being a person I’ve always wanted...

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I’ll take it.

I think so. I can’t think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

I don’t talk about my personal life with the press.

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

I think any actor would agree that you can’t replace theater. It’s immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it’s different.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it’s like the right deal for you… not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay...

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you’re starting out, and it seems like you’re starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made...

I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

I’m also beginning to engage myself more in the public discussion of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to which I was diagnosed five years ago.

Sickness is mankind’s greatest defect.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

Don’t you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It’s like you ordered wrong.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

Whatever we’ll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

It’s funny because it’s funny.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

I’ve never been able to say I’ve been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I’ve been influenced in some way by all of them.

Our music, you either get it or you don’t. There’s no middle ground.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts...

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates...

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Cheers is my favorite show of all time.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.