“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

“I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.”

“My mother was a teacher.”

“I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white om...”

“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”

“For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.”

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”