Hey, any time you’re throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

I’m a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk – and collect it.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

One man’s observation is another man’s closed book or flight of fancy.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that’s impossible.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety...

I’m not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.

The idea of doing something that you’ve seen a thousand times before doesn’t appeal to me.

In January ’77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

I think any actor would agree that you can’t replace theater. It’s immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it’s different.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it’s like the right deal for you… not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay...

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you’re starting out, and it seems like you’re starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made...

I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

I’m also beginning to engage myself more in the public discussion of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to which I was diagnosed five years ago.

One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that...

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you’d make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off...

It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

Ford didn’t know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn’t repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I think that’s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human....

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

I think games are starting to branch out. It’s not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

Well, I’m never happier than when I’m acting.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that’s better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

So It’s not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have...

I’d always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

I’m not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I’d like to think that it’s getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.