I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Eternity does nothing but give.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.