I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.