It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living..

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off..

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying some….

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting ….

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything..

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most producti….

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..