"I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me."

"If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!"

"The only failure is not to try"

"It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape."

"I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success."

"I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this."

"I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident."

"Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful."

"I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you."

"Shutting down the government is not how you make government work."

"My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey."

"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life."

"I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do."

"I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed."

"I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention."

"When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around."

"I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on."

"Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not."

"I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older."

"If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school."

"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."

"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."