I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.