I don't think rock music has any positive function. 
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century 
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. 
Life is full of surprises, isn't it? 
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. 
I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today. 
The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous. 
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many. 
I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me. 
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. 
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. 
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. 
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man. 
I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate. 
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. 
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s. 
Above all, a director has to be a good captain. 
The Internet is for lonely people. People should live. 
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. 
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. 
I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals. 
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly. 
Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' 
One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you. 
Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. 
A war put off is not a war avoided. 
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. 
I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it. 
I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry ... 
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. 
I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society. 
As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist. 
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. 