The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Roman Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.