I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don’t think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.
Acting is everybody’s favorite second job.
Take caution in your tone, commander. I’m a fair man, but this – heat is making me absolutely crazy.
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
I’m content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That’s what I’ve always worried about: that I wouldn’t try hard enough.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It’s not, What about this? What about that? Either you’re safe or you’re out. It’s ten yards or it’s not. It’s in the hoop or out of the hoop. It’s certain.
You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.
Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
This town needs an enema!
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Comedy is much harder, it’s a lot more exacting. You can’t just be real and you can’t just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.
I’m the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.
Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?