Who's to say who's an expert?

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Who's to say who's an expert?

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

You only grow when you are alone.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

People like to do what they used to do after theyve stopped being able to do it.

Its always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

If you dont have enemies you dont have character.

Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

When you get mad, it's the time you lose.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there's something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.

Happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

You dont know pain until youre staring at yourself in the mirror with tears streaming down your face and youre begging yourself to just hold on and be strong.

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic that its the way their brain is programmed and its not their fault that makes all the difference in the world.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Freedom is a universal value.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.