It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

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.

To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason.

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.