In Chicago, we love our crooks!

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.