I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody except bad people.

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'