As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Privacy is not negotiable.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Enthusiasm is life.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

If you have never failed you have never lived.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.