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

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.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.