All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

...So when the weather wasn't too overbearingly hot he tucked her arm in the crook of his elbow, and they walked about town, running errands and asking questions.And falling in love

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

I know a lot of actors who live with kind of a soundtrack in their lives, even to go to the market. I'm not that kind of actor. I don't listen to songs. I actually like quiet.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.