I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.