I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

Excellence is a way of life.

In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Michael Pitt is amazing. His physical comedy is extraordinary; he's so committed and so willing to play within the scenes. It makes you feel very free to also explore.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.