"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

"Earth's the right place for love; / I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

“The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.” 

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.” 

“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process.

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.