Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

I was unwilling to – without getting too philosophical about it – I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn’t doing that.

Actually, I’ve only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn’t actually have an onscreen kiss – we’re about to but it gets broken up.

The girl I was dating heard this preacher on the radio, and she thought his message was something I should hear. I thought, Great, a preacher. Just what I need.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they’re necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that’s dangerous and they’ll boomerang.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

My first film goes into production in October. It’s called White Boy Shuffle and it’s based on a novel about a young black kid and it’s sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

I can’t really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December ’75 and went...

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

There’s a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He’s a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he’s so...

Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it’s the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I really didn’t think about song writing.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I mean, if your idea belongs on cable TV than that’s where you should take it and you shouldn’t try to force it into network TV, and vice versa.

That’s where the money is, on the road.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what’s up with the dancing? I haven’t even seen the third one.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

I’m here to make sense.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations – the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I think my character’s getting to the point where he can’t even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can’t sleep anymore.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

I don’t want people to know what I’m actually like. It’s not good for an actor.

I’m a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I’m not a big radio guy, I don’t listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I’m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you...

Well that’s the point: People don’t normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be...

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

I don’t think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I’m in jail, who looks after my children,...

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable – if anything, quite happy with what you are doing – then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I’ve made...

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same...

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.