I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

Big breaks come from small fractures.

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.