I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

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.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

Survival justifies any means.

If love is a flame, I am an inferno...

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.