The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.