Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.