I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

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.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

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

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Money can buy you attention, but it can never buy you true respect.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.