The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

I'm very honest about where I'm coming from.

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

I get it I live it to me there's nothin realer

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.