When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.