I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

We are a sensational team.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.