I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

A great shot is when you pull it off. A smart shot is when you don't have the guts to try it.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.