Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

I don't look good in tights. I know that.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

Every empire eventually falls.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.

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.