It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

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.

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.