[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

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.

Escape is a commodity like anything else

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

If I have only one life . . . let me live it as a blonde.