You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.