Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I'm really white trash.

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.

In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others

There are times i hate you cause i cant erase the times you hurt me and put tears on my face

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.