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

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.

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.

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

Your truth isn't everybody else's truth.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.

Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.