We're picking on people we can beat.

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.

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.

The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.

My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

Your feelings are your signals of deep truths inside of you. They're the language of your soul, and they need you to listen to them.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?