She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

For email the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards but youd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

I'm an idealist.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

You win a few, you lose a few.

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly).

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.