Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

If you are doing what you love to do and on the way helping the humanity, then you are a success.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The hammer never complains of the noise.

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

old folks is the nation.