How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

To be ignorant is to be in the dark

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep