Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

I am the master of my destiny.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

Every President hates the Press.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

Anyone can be rich in promises.