A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.