'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.