Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over.

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.