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The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings in English, in a different language. But I could.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

Paradise will be a kind of library

We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

The mind can seek no greater good than wisdom, the heart can yearn for no higher strength than faith, and the soul can long for no purer virtue than love.