My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it’s not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you’re doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it’s bigger than your own life.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ’looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

My doctor said, ‘If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you’ll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.’ Well, I’m gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world’s population.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, ‘That was a good day.’ I am one of those who worries and asks, ‘How did I screw up today?

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.

I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that’s OK; that’s a good thing.

It’s not a mid-life crisis. It’s a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go “I have everything but I’m still unhappy.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in baseball.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get.

I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Shake it off and move on.

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Houston, we have a problem.

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.