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..

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the bl….

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

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots..

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..

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..

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..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot..