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.

Readers have told me how the mother, daughter, sister relationships resonate for them. They connect with the importance of female relationships.

That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us...

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that’s a cool thing. I don’t think it’s exploded or anything, but I think it’s pretty cool that it still exists, it’s...

Because it’s uncensored cable, I think we’ll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn’t been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn’t have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still...

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I don’t know anybody who does what I do. I’m very underground.

Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

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.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I’d know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope...

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I write a good amount. I’ve been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I’ll do something with it someday, but I don’t want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx...

He who can believe himself well, will be well.