There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

O, money, money, money, I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

How easy for those who do not bulge To not overindulge!

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Hark to the sky of a seagull! He cries because he's not an eagle. Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull? What would you say to your she-gull?

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

In the world of mules There are no rules.

You can be young only once, but you can be immature forever.

It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.

My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.

I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.

The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.

We didn't know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we were in a rock band. People started cheering. It was a nice way to begin Zoolander 2, with that kind of reception.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.