“IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.”

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.

You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.

As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.

Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.

I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.

He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.