My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

But if we do not try, the dream will remain a dream.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.