By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.

If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.

The extreme always makes an impression.

I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.