Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

The most importantcommitment you will ever makeis to being the best you can be.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.