When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

There's a new slimming course just out where they remove all your bones. Not only do you weigh less, but you also look so much more relaxed.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.