I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

Worry about others but don't show it.Don't worry about things that cannot be changed.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

Records are there to be broken.