Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.