You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

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.

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.