"It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies."

"Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it."

"We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going."

"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."

"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."

"I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around."

"What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start."

"I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time."

"In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present."

"A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

"I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone."

"America's racist, so what do you expect."

"A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick."

"I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be."

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."

"I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world."

"The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead."

"Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything."

"A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean."

"It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money."

"The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own."

"We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space."

"I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich."

"What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do."

"We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going."

"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."

"I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding."

"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things."

"When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like, and when you do, you have to front your position."

"My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor."

"I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

"What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great."

"You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies."

"Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood."

"Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre."

"After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?"

"I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do."

"I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious."

"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

"In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin."

"I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone."

"Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it."

"I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason."

"There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?"

"It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene."

"I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble."