Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.