Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

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.

He doesn't jingle my chimes.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.