I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

Skinny is only one body type.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will if not prevented be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

I've got big, big dreams for the future.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I don't believe in death.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Socialism is politicized envy.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Birds teach us something very important To whatever height you rise you will finally come down to the ground