Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny. Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Fame and success are very different things. I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place. I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people. Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money. Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor. Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut! In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state. Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family. I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit. I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.' Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.