Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

You can only reach God through His creation

Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself.

Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.