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" I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities. "

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" Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. "

" I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always. "

" I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. "

" Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races. "

" I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about. "

" I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality. "

" I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies. "

" You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. "

" You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. "

" For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad. "

" A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking. "

" I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here. "

" And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. "

" It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you. "

" I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously. "

" I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career. "

" I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. "

" The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. "

" I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be. "

" Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all. "

" I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "

" It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. "

" Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses. "

" He lives with his creativity in high gear. "

" I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. "

" Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore. "

" Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out. "

" I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing. "

" Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees. "

" I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new. "