I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

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.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

We set out to change the world.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Wealth is thoughts, not things.