I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

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.

Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams.

I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.