"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

"Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story."

"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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