Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Every empire eventually falls.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.