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

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

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

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.