It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice

A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]