In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.