The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

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 have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.