I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

With '24: Legacy,' there are a lot of people who are super-excited about the show. But there are a lot of people who are very skeptical.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

First rule of engineering beware prototypes. Along with avoid anything made by an engineer who doesnt have all his own fingers.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.