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I guess I've got a smart wife.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.