If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.

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.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

You have wings, I have roots.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

Night and day, you are the one.

Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.