Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

Health and happiness are interconnected.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.