I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.