In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

Actors always have opinions.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

The camera looks into your soul.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The beginning and the decline of love are both marked by the embarrassment the lovers feel to be alone together.

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

Because of these layaway angels, many children did not have to wonder why Santa skipped them in 2011.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.