When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'

If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken the law. I would support - after we have developed a secure border - a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America... Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what's right for America.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.'

The elevation of appearance over substance of celebrity over character of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from whats truly important.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

The internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature conclusion about what's in store for the U.S. economy.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.