The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like, "Which is better?" At least I was trying.
I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.