You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.