I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

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.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge