It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

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.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.