Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

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 do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

What did you say, Joe?

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.