[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

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