"I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball."

"I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York."

"If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun."

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration."

"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."

"Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often."

"I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."

"Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say."

"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America."

"It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night."

"To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."

"But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all."

"I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past."

"His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years."

"Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to."

"While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world"

"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."

"But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music."

"She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other."

"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."