Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

I don’t want to tell you how much I love you. I just want to feel it deep in my heart.

We live not by the money we possess but by the goodness of the Creator.

Most people don't know what they want in their life! What an irony their life has become!

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.