I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.

It's harder to laugh than to cry.

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

The one thing I've always done is to try not to overcomplicate anything.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Believing hath a core of unbelieving.

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?

If you have the guts to be yourself other peoplell pay your price.

I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.