In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

There’s a greatness in this country many of the kids today don’t know.

I’d like to read a book sometime. I’ve never read a book before. That’d be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I’ve got to do that sometime.

I do better on the first three takes; I won’t be better at 20 takes.

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there’s a...

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I’d never have to worry about money and wouldn’t have to do...

I’m one of those people who’d probably go crazy if I had to do something week in and week out for five years. But I’ll check it out.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

There is a god within us.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still...

I’m not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I’m living any kind of a life. I’m actually trying to convince people: I don’t want you...

I like New York because you’re kind of forced to smell everybody else’s funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

I’ve never taken myself too seriously.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don’t.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We’re all smoking right now in fact.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Series work is just grueling.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven’t found too many great scripts.

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

American shows don’t always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I’m quite glad for it.

I’m not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a...

I thought LSD was an abused drug in that it was never meant for a person to drop and then go walking down the street.

You don’t become the character.

Obviously, if a director doesn’t communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I’m geared towards.

The first EP that we put out, none of the songs from that one got put on this record but a few of the songs from the other demos and EPs made it on.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I’ve made my peace with myself.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I don’t think I’d ever be cruel to an animal.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

It’s a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I’m making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

The writers are writing human beings, and they’re writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it’s one of the charms of the show, the idea...

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.