A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.

Don't allow your negative thoughts and beliefs to bully you into a state of living that you didn't bargain for.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.