I'm really a romantic at heart.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. "Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess who it will be? You and me, surfer boy. You and me.

On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

So much of who we are is where we have been.