Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

The whole world is a personality cult.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

Unzip my body, take my heart out

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.