Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important...

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

I don’t even own a TV because I think it’s the devil.

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get...

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head...

I’m not a social friend of the Reagans. That’s by their choice and by mine. They don’t drink enough.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I’d spend all my life without ever going...

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

My only real claim to anyone’s attention lies in my writing.

Every casting director I’ve met is a woman.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell...

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Accidents, try to change them it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you.

Everything’s a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There’s no guarantee.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do it if it means something...

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You don’t want to be photographed? You don’t want to be known? Then you don’t need to be out there peddling movies.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to...

I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I’ve pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I’ve been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having...

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I’m going to play and what they...

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

People think I’m trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It’s really that I’m a tomboy at heart.

And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am...

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn’t. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And,...

I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn’t conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill...