You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.