[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.