I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

I would never take any of my cards off the table.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

I'm not politically correct.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.