Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons, ” Shinzo told her. “Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that’s why you’re here. To do something extraordinary.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

A writer must say yes to life.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.