It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

Today's failure can teach us to prepare for the future.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.