It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

I never pursued a career relentlessly

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

I'm just at the beginning of my dream. At 78, I'm finally at the place now for myself where I feel my true voice has a potential of being expressed out in the world.

I don't think there is any analysis. I don't think anyone knows why people like [The Twilight]. I don't think even the fans know why they connect with it in the way they do. It's a visceral thing.