There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

The soul is infinite, so there's no in or out of it. It is everywhere. There's no place that it is not.