The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.

And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he's accomplished, dog, that's what it's all about.