“In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessim...” — Jack Nicholson Quote

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

That's the NFL: Not For Long. First year's a welcome year. Second it's, What are you going to do? Third year's like, Well, you didn't do much last year; give us something or you're going. That's the way it is. They'll trade you or they'll cut you.