To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

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

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.