When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.

Directing is a tremendous art.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Sometimes its good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.