My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.