It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.