I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

No human being live a blank life that is thoughtless, therefore you are what you learned on your life time.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.