"There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq."

"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on."

"I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up."

"My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them."

"For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries."

"I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem."

"It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script."

"I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out."

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

"We're picking on people we can beat."

"America can't beat anyone anymore."

"The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'"

"I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on."

"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him."

"I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it."

"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on."

"I'd think, 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person."

"When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win."

"I'm the flavor of the month."

"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."

"Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up."

"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."

"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"

"The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer."

"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them."

"People know everything about everybody now."

"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."

"I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show."

"I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of."

"I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it."

"As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of."

"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"

"The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim."

"I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move."

"I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency."

"Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says."

"I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality."

"I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'"

"Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is."

"You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers."

"I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make."

"I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women."

"It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period."

"Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work."

"An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing."

"I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad."

"The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny."

"I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds."

"I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it."

"If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter."