Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

I hated goodbyes. It felt like I had to give so many of them away lately.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!

To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

My answers have been prayered.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.