You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm too much of a big kid.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

These days, “getting lucky” means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it’s still HOT!

My design is no design.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.