You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.

You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else.

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.

I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Work with joy.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

Remember, the best beer in the world is the one you brewed.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.