As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.