So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

I've made my peace with myself.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I was always the second heavy.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I'm a lousy reader.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

If youre going to be a bum be the biggest. If youre going to blow it blow it big.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

Who will observe the observers?

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a States failure all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

Little opportunities should be improved.

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

I listen to a lot of reggae.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams.

I don't play boxing.

Create more value than you capture.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

Hear the other side.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.