Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

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

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.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

I'm very wary of news on television.