Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

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.

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.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

I hate being poor.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.