I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

They were two burnt lovers, too similar and too different at the same time.

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.