If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.