Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

I was a terrible English student.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.