I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.