I may be an optimist.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.