I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

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.

The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.

I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

Freedom for the working class!

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Document, evaluate, focus, test.