Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

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.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Even if you don't win you learn. So there's no losing. You win the fight or you learn.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.