we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Abraham, " he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend.""And I to see you dead.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

I usually like to keep to myself, but others can tell if I'm upset because I'm keeping to myself.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?