It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

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.

Love is the beauty of life.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.