I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

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.

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty, " sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularly devastating and lethal, potentially lethal.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.