Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

You, " he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.