You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

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.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: You can't be a Christian by yourself.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.