"There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'"

"I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence."

"It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny."

"Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?"

"I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K."

"I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years."

"I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to."

"The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised."

"Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons."

"The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'"

"It's wonderful being the underdog."

"I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger."

"All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!"

"Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?"

"It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film."

"I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress."

"The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that."

"In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record."

"Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life."

"I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life."

"I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car."

"Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting."

"My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe."

"If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have."

"Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in."

"Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all."

"I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world."

"I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing."

"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth."

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."

"My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world"

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor"

"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."

"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases."

"Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value."

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."

"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity"."

"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

"There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

"You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not?"

"Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance"

"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

"Golf is typical capitalist lunacy."

"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"

"Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation."

"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters"