I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

People remain same in photographs only

There will be no enemy if you try to kill him with the power of your love.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.