Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process.

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.

Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Wisdom always ends up in gain

Men have healed me. Men have wounded me. One man healed me by wounding me.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.