I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.