There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

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.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.