You only grow when you are alone.

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.

Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Geffen was never supportive of the band.

I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

Millions of Americans recognize the right of private businesses to donate to any cause they choose; that if one doesn't want to patronize a chicken sandwich business, one can certainly buy fast food anywhere they want.

You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.