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Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less.

I know there's an impression that I'm someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don't. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it's only caused me problems.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.

Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

You have a lot of optimism when you are young.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.