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...

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...