I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I don't care about my image.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

Love is a spark of divinity.

It strikes me as unChristian that we often have more charitable attitudes toward ideological allies than we do toward brothers and sisters in Christ with whom we disagree on matters of politics.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.