We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I'm all over the place.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.