In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.

People change, they grow.

I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!

God in his perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower.

In the rare cases where it occurs a failure to increase ones visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

To put the past behind you, you must accept that you've moved beyond it.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.