“You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.”

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.

She had it all, brains and body and the ability to tell me to go to hell whenever I deserved it. Love, at its finest.

Instead of pouring me the finest liquor, he filled my cup with false promises and sweet nothings.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.