I had a great stepfather.

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

I've always liked Tina Turner.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

I never really look at my movies.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

Liberace was a lovely guy.

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

To me, Bermuda is a real family spot.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Paul Rudd is ripped.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

I come from a tough stock.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.