No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.