Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden