Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Works of art make rules

The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

What’s the will of God for my life? You don’t need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

The Spanish press started calling me ‘El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.