I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.

My workout is my meditation.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

I really fight for my privacy.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them, so our heartscan melt together.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

Thought is action in rehearsal.