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I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a big deal when you're 15 years old, and it enables girls who don't have the money to come in and choose something special.

I think I've got wiser.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.