Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.