“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.”

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed – so we were all happy with it as written. Then I’d let him play as long as we had time.

When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Weight doesn’t matter as long as you’re happy with yourself.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.