You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

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.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

There was a beauty to an elegantly designed circuit board that rivaled anything found in nature.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.