Good dialogue is very important.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

To expand your world, love everyone even when no one is perfect.

Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.

There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Anger destroys your soul.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.