If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

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

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.