“I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.”

“Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.”

“Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.”

“The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.”

“No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.”

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.”

“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”

“It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.”

“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.”

“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.”

“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”

“Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.”

“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”

“I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.”

“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”

“Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.”

“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”

“The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.”

“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”

“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”

“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”

“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”

“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.”

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”

“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”

“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”

“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”

“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”

“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”

“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”

“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”

“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”

“I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.”

“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”

“Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.”

“My hair was famous before I was.”

“You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.”

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”

“I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.”

“It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.”

“The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.”

“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”

“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.”

“Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.”

“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

“I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”

“Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.”