I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

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.

Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

It's a real gift when you find someone to share your life with.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.