It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Life is too short not to smile. Smile as much as you can.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

You get a lot farther in life without drugs.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.