There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

Getting older is hard.

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.

Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic.

Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.

I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.

I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.

I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael.

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

I just can't live in New York anymore.