I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

You are either on Wall Street or you’re a bum and there’s nothing in between.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.