I was always the second heavy.

I've made my peace with myself.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I was always the second heavy.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I'm a lousy reader.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

If youre going to be a bum be the biggest. If youre going to blow it blow it big.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

Let go of your past. Start making history!

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Morning is the dream renewed, the heart refreshed, earth's forgiveness painted in the colors of the dawn.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Politics is all a matter of timing.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Dream as if youll live forever live as if youll die today.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

Third consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less the further back that past idea is and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

I tend to write more when I travel.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.