I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Love is everything. Nothing else but love can define the destiny of humanity.

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

I believe in looseness.