Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it, and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

It's been a privilege to be here.

Christians have no business moping around.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.