The past is history, the future's a mystery.

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

My mood depends on the girl whom I love, but she is like a wildest hurricane, drifting shore to shore.

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?