I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.