The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

The time for your labor has been granted.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.