If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

You can count your days or make your days count for something. The choice is yours.

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.