My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Ideal is the one, who knows the self.

The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Wear down to be renewed.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.