For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.
I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.
I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
The pine stays green in winter... Wisdom in hardship.
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
I'm for same-sex marriage.
I have three closets in my bedroom.
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
