This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

It is better to be kind than be impolite.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.