I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

Love will turn you on your head.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.