To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

We're the generous country, we're the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.