Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

At my age, to still be able to do parts that are super physical, I'm lucky. I'm doing more fun stuff now than I ever have in my life. I'm just really fortunate.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself