"I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing."

"I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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.'"

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

"People know everything about everybody now."

"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."

"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."

"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?'"

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

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