Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.
I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.
You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
When you leave L.A. and go to another city, guys are normal again. They like girls their own age.
Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.
My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'
I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.
If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
