We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

You're exactly as big as I let you be.

Maybe don't make it so.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly.

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

Panty Melter: an exceedingly rare species of man blessed with so many desirable attributes he effortlessly gains access into a girl's panties.

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.