"I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something."

"A film has its own life and takes its own time."

"I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa."

"If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton."

"There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself."

"In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time."

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."