I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

I don’t have to play football for money.

The best diet is the one that you don't know you are on.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Wisdom subdues bigotry.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.

Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.