When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

...and yes that was meant to be interpreted in a sarcastic bubblegum tone complete with clapping and jazz hands.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.