Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Take control. You are a strong, independent woman.

People who don’t know the power of their mind shall only have power without power

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.