A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.