You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

There are unlimited possibilities in life.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.