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

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.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

Her messy hair a visible attribute of her stubborn spirit. As she shakes it free she smiles knowing wild is her favorite color.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.

I am a Catholic.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Art depends on luck and talent.