Once I got started acting I loved it.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

It's not about eating healthy to lose weight. It's about eating healthy to feel good.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.