I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

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'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.

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.

She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper

We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves

The only way to get anunderstanding of the true wealthin your life is to acknowledge all thethings you have to be grateful for.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"