I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to 18 to make extra money to go to Europe, which I made half of and my parents gave me half.

I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.