I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

When a man in purple and screaming pink stares at you, you know it's time to change your appearance.

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.