You can tell when you're in a hit.

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.

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

Every situation in life is temporary so when life is good make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And when life isnt so good remember that I will not last forever and better days are on the way.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Time will all change and neither bad times norgood times last forever. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. When all is lost there is still a memory.

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

A new broom sweeps clean

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!