Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

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.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.

There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass.