I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

He told me he wouldn't hurt... Charlie. He lied to me.

Successful villany is called virtue.