I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.