It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.