Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

I like idiotic comedies.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.