If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness.