It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.