Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?