You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Don't get caught staring at the moon while the sun is rising. Yesterday's problem should never become today's concern.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.