It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.