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" My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. "

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" The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. "

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. "

" I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you. "

" I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general. "

" My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. "

" I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! "

" If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. "

" I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move. "

" You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. "

" There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. "

" The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.' "

" You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. "

" For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries. "

" I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women. "

" It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. "

" The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else. "

" I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. "

" I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds. "

" I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. "

" Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. "

" There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting. "

" It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. "

" I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing. "

" I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. "

" Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says. "

" When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. "

" I'm the flavor of the month. "

" Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. "

" I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' "