"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."

"Clint Eastwood has always been a hero."

"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."

"I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through."

"Wisdom principle 77 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 22."

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life well-lived is a testament that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."