I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.