I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

Enjoy this moment, this moment is your precious life.

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.

I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.