I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

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.

Meditation, prayer and positive thinking are a great combination for making your mind your best friend.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.