“One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?”

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course.

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.

If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.