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

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.

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

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.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.