We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

I can, therefore I am.

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.