Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

Id like an omelet named after me.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

The what to do can be taught

The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows