You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

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.

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

My love of books was all that saved me.

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.