Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

The past informs the present.

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.