My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

Whatever you do, do it from the heart

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.

This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.