It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.