It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

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.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

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.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.