It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.