Jim Quotes

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.

Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

I didn't want to be an actor.

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

To run any system, you've got to grow your personnel and your players have to have a certain skill set.

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

A lot of people have knowledge, but they don't have the wisdom of when to apply that knowledge.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

You ought not be afraid of nuclear, but respectful of it. Yes, it has dangers, but it also has benefits. If not for nuclear, much of the medicine that's saving lives today would not be in existence.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.