“It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.”
“The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.”
“Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.”
“You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.”
“Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.”
“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.”
“As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.”
“Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.”
“I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.”
“I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.”