I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.

Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.