What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

It's your life, live it your way.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

...I like stories very much, ” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?