I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I have a suicide impulse.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

I like to be who I am.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I travel probably four days a week. That's the game of international development. You have to be at your properties. No developer is successful sitting behind their desk.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

Democracy is a good client.

No human is completely fearless.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

Wealthy individuals are known for spending their money wisely. This means living below their means by skipping the McMansion and impractical luxury vehicles.

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying this is who i am.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.