I've always been an optimist.

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.

A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.