I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I have a natural swagger.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.