This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.