The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.