You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

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.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

I don't want to be without God's blessings.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.