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

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 was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if I'm lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place.

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.