Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.

terrorism n.Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.