A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.

President Bush, have a hot dog with me.