I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.

...once you express your will, the Universe will conspire with each and every atom to help you reach your destiny.

If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.