Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.

You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful. It is possible to love your body the way it is.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.