I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

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.

Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness.

To live in purpose is to understand the moment of conception

It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.

My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.