The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.