"After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go."

"Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films."

"I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor."

"I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far."

"Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing."

"I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain."

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them."

"I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by."

"One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece."

"I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money."

"In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer."

"I like simplicity; I don't need luxury."

"The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it."

"I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films."

"I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!"

"I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school."

"My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph."

"Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way."

"My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it."

"I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water."

"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."

"If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business."

"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."