Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.