It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

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.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Money is just another word for power.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.