“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

A good man always knows his limitations.

Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

I’d like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Just trust your instincts. There’s an old saying in golf, you’ve studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don’t trust it, you’ll ruin it; your brain will take over.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Religion is just mind control.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

All so convinced that you’re following your heart cause your mind don’t control what it does sometimes.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.