“I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.”

I would like to direct.

Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.

I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.

Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.