I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve, —Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].

True love goes deeper than physical attraction. Only one's inner positive beauty is capable of creating a level of love that is irreplaceable.

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

A problem that we're seeing now in the aromatherapy world is that the market has got so huge that in some cases there are not enough plants to supply the demand.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.