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I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

I'm a very fortunate person. I get to choose the movies that I want to do. I have a lot of friends in this industry that don't get to do that. I grew up in L.A. A lot of my friends are actors so I realize every day how lucky I am to have this opportunity, so while I'm here, I'm going to try to do exactly what I want.

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I'm no role model; all I want to show is love.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

You do what you want to for Passion, you do what you have to for Obligation.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.