American Quotes

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the c

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I want to do rock operas.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

I love kids.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

I have led a pretty colorful life.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.