There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic. I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that. But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.