I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.