I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

It's an important fact of life, war.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

Its mysterious what attracts you to a person.

Its best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.

I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Grounded leaders are present for others operate with fortitude and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I could play my own music when I wanted. But I can't imagine actually doing that now; I think I'd get bored.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.