You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.