I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

Best things in life aren't things.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.

Whether you're going through fear, whether you're going through pain, or whether you're going through anything, love is the best healer and the most powerful thing in the world.

I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Id like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change peoples lives.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.