When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.