I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

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.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.