I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

They look right. And you move left.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

I'm happy every day.

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be their voice. When they are hunted, we must be their shield. When they are locked away, we must free them. Giving us the truth is not a crime. This is our data, our information, our history. We must fight to own it.

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

I can remember in my lifetime when we used to argue with customers.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.