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

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.

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

According to Greek mythology humans were originally created with four arms four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power Zeus split them into two separate parts condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

At some point, the spectacular growth in China has to stop.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts - wets, drys and hypocrites.

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.