When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

I don't have a boss . . . nobody tells me what to do.

Children recognize me from Free Willy (1993), and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs (1992). The kids are, like, "There's Glen!" and the parents are, like, "Don't go near that guy!"

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.

The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.