Our music, you either get it or you don’t. There’s no middle ground.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts...

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates...

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Cheers is my favorite show of all time.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I’d know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope...

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I write a good amount. I’ve been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I’ll do something with it someday, but I don’t want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx...

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I’ve done. That to me is what...

And it’s one reason why I don’t go to a lot of movies – they’re more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don’t recognize you by your voice.

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.

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don’t stop being a reporter because you’ve become a columnist.

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.

Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.

I’m too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I would never do crack… I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

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.