Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

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.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.