Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

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.

But history does repeat itself

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.