I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.

I think you always have regrets.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

A fact must be assimilated with or discriminated fromm some other fact or facts in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

I haven't said anything bad about Fay Vincent publicly, and I won't. I like him personally.

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Anger is like ice and also quick to melt.

If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

The person whom you favoured with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.