Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

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.

When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty--it creates a magical dance in the heart.

Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future.

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.