If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.