So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?