Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Desire great things in life.Expect great things in life.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

People need their history like they need air and food.