Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

Big breaks come from small fractures.

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

I can talk myself so much into my part.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.