As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

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.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.