I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

Service is what life is all about.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.