“Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?”

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Just trust your instincts. There’s an old saying in golf, you’ve studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don’t trust it, you’ll ruin it; your brain will take over.

I’d say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody – instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don’t spend what you don’t have.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

As I get more and more involved in the child’s world with Rocco his son I’m getting interested in making a film for children.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.

It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.