I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The passions often engender their contraries.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

We have to prevent loss of life.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.