Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The secret is to just keep moving.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.