So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.