It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

But here, the rain was just another part of the landscape. Like it was the thing that lived here and we were merely visitors.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

I don't want that to be the headline.