There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

You can only really understand good if you have bad so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity even if its nice I cant imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say you know.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity a sense of belonging and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships.

It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Running through things because you are familiar with them breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.

Greenland is a wonderful country.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I've got thick skin.