Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
I got a lot out of 'Brothers & Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Miette: When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.
Mike Zavala: Get the fuck out of here. There's a drunk man outside the liquor store?
Mike Zavala: Orozco, you been working out? Orozco: Yeah, with your mom.
Archy Hamilton: We don't stop them there, they could end up here. Camel Driver: And they're welcome to it.
[after Bill recalls his dream] Psychiatrist: And how is this different? Bill: I don't kill myself at the end.
Crown Prince Leopold: I want you to put and end to it.
Johnny Caspar: You double-cross once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.
[writing a suicide note] Christy Brown: All is nothing, therefore nothing must end.
