I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I don't care about my image.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Letting go of anger is the best way to find peace of mind, a healthier pain-free body, and an indomitable spirit.

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.