Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'

I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of vintage and High Street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. I always go for comfort, and like feeling confident and casual.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Bloom where you are planted.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.