I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

It's your life, live it your way.

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.