It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

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.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year