I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.