Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.