I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

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.

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.