If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Family is never really gone.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Every woman should feel like a princess on her wedding day

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.