You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

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.

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

Hillary Clinton's been proven to be a liar on so many different ways.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.