After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Words without thought is just that, words...

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.