Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Well, obviously, as soon as I’d finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you’ve got a weak foundation you can’t build anything.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or...

After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

It’s a hard call, but I’ve no desire to live my children’s lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to...

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn’t want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I...

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge-a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to ‘by how...

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn’t just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn’t act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

I’m not interested in wasting money on a project.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn’t grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

When you’re 19 years old, you make $1 million a year, you’ve dated all the coolest people on earth, you’ve hung out with the coolest people on earth.

I guess I’m a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

The role of the Colonel was not exactly written for me or the role that I wanted to play, but he was written like an imbecile or kind of foolish.

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

I’ll always be chasing you… Glory.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

The President of the Reform Movement started a literacy project and said everyone should be reading at least four Jewish books a year.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can’t even tell you.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

I would like to direct.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I’m working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and...

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money — it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t...

You’re raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it’s special. I think people react to celebrities like that — I mean, they treat...

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down...

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.