You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.