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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.