You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.