They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.