You know the people who are there are there because they love the music. It has nothing to do with Saved by the Bell or any of that crap.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Acting, directing and producing in a film when you have no budget and only nineteen days makes it extremely, extremely difficult.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are...

I only have 8-10 kids in my class. I read the press articles to them about Lost in Space and tell them about it. I’m like their little internet.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn’t seem to be much stopping.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don’t think so. It’s modern. It’s a part of today’s world.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I don’t like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

There’s a discipline. When you take someone’s portrait, you don’t have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that’s the image that you took.

It’s so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we’re wrong, and often we’re dead wrong, we miss the truth.

It’s hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

I don’t have a computer. I don’t know anything about that. I don’t even know what a website is.

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

Oh great, I get to stand in a dark room with a spotlight on me, I get to talk, everybody else has to sit quietly and listen to me.

I was never a part of the Actor’s Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I’d gone to California.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

But since I’m single, it’s nice to get a kiss where I can.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren’t clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you’re intimidated by me, that’s something you’ll have to deal with.

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good...

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn’t know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda’s son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn’t like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn’t like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually...

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don’t have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed – so we were all happy with it as written. Then I’d let him play as...

I love it: The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live… All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It’s fun. It can...

It’s easy to write a good column if you’ve got good information. It’s hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a...

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

When people tell you they saw your last picture – well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

I’m really into whatever comes my way, really, and never plan what I want to do, but I’ll always take a part that makes me feel good.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn’t want to do.

The fact that that’s the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It’s so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can’t quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that’s what the deal is with...

It is more difficult to work on the streets and it is also very exciting to be there… I find sometimes that it makes you prepare a little harder.