I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

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.

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

He who thinks little errs much…

A friend in need becomes always a friend in need if you help him once......

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.