The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

the fact about marriage is that it's never perfect, there is always struggle but you have to pick who you willing to struggle with

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

Win with me or watch me win.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.