“I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.”

Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?

I never think there’s any competition between films. I root for everybody’s films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.

I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It’s just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they’ve seen, then I question your judgment.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it’s time to stop singing.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They’re a captive audience.

Cinema has no boundaries, we all belong to the same artistic community.

I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

What I say is what I say, I don’t always say the right thing, I don’t always say the politically correct thing. I don’t have any regrets about that.

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It’s hard work. You’ve got to get dressed up, you’ve got to hang around with beautiful women. It’s difficult. It’s a problem.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Tragic breaks my heart but its when I feel most alive.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.