I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Don't judge yourself by your past

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.