Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

My insides fluttered, sending curls of heat through my stomach and shivers all the way down my spine. So, this was what it was like to kiss someone.....and mean it.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I don't go around fire expectin' not to sweat

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.