I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

There are always many sides to the truth.

Holy Bible is Holy Bible.

It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.