I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
Where do these stairs go? They go up!
Life is so damn short. For fuck's sake, just do what makes you happy.
The Best Way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
And then depression set in....
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
It's given many great performers their start, but more importantly, it's killed thousands of barely talented people and it's put them to death, and they're now doing the jobs they're built for.
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
You gotta want it.
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
I try to be available for life to happen to me.
I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
