As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.

Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.