"The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest."

"It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy."

"One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life."

"That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us."

"I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer."

"Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart."

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"

"Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless."

"There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space."

"The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it."

"I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31."

"We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus."

"But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to."

"There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed."

"I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job."

"Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep."

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it."

"Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why"

"If you're waiting for the job, you're dead."

"37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime."

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

"To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife."

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?"

"I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft."

"I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do."

"I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay."

"What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from."

"It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success."

"I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well."

"You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care."

"This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted."

"Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored."

"I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them."

"Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes."

"Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had."

"Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student."

"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."

"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."

"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."

"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy."

"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."

"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."

"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

"I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

"Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us."

"If there is no direct threat why are we invading?"

"Blame is for God and small children."