Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

You are almost never cool to your children.

You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.

If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

Any chance I get, I will dance.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

Running gives me confidence.