I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

You ought to pray for a strong heart and then you can endure all things.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.