I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

True education makes you humble and gives you power.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.