Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

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.

...You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.

We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like... well, Eichmann maybe.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!

But superstition, like belief, must die.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.