I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.