Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

L.A. kind of scares me.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.

We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.

I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.

We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves... our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.

We cannot allow American taxpayers to foot the bill for tax revenue grabs in Europe and elsewhere.

Texas is made for trade.

The Affordable Care Act has hurt more people that it's helped.

When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

The Reagan tax reform delivered real fairness, closing loopholes for Washington special interests so that all Americans could keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.

America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.

As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan's 1985 national address to the American people as he challenged them to join him in boldly reforming the broken, complex tax code.

As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family's needs.

Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along with it.

Washington knows how to spend money.

Our broken tax code is one of the main reasons the United States lags behind when it comes to economic growth, job creation, and competitiveness. Without pro-growth tax reform, our workers and our businesses will continue to suffer.

I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we'll lose.

Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

I stopped - just killed - President Obama's $10-a-barrel gas tax.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

I'm not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.

America's real national security interest in the region is protecting our friend Israel.

The people now trapped in Obamacare did what the government mandated them to do - they complied with the law. They should not be left out to dry.