You have to learn to hallucinate.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

It's your life, live it your way.

How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?

Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.