Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

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.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.