You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Brains are not everything.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.