My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.

I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.