I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

People cannot be managed or led, people are inspired. Think leadership again if you disagree.

There's only one way in and one way out of this world.

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.