Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

If you don't want a man to lie, don't force him to reply.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.