I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.