I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.