But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.

My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;Ambition is a means to thrive.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.