I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.

If you're in the middle of a monumental and devastating life crisis, hang in there. It'll be over in about an hour. Two hours, tops.

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Insight without action is worthless.

Without money nothing gets done.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.