If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Venice is eternity itself.