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...

I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’

Whenever I don’t’ have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that’s a high title to claim.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

I haven’t been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and...

I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.

I don’t like government, it’s just that simple.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don’t have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn’t understand...

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what...

Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they’d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of...

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that’s them just understanding themselves better and better.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I love older men.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

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.