Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

He told her, You are a wise woman. Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.

It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

... but the longest day hath its evening.