"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Acting is not about being someone else. It's about finding the truth in yourself.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.

Every life is a universe, and every death is the end of a world.

There's a real correlation between a society that tells people that they can do anything, and the existence of low self-esteem. So that's another way in which something quite positive can have a nasty kickback. There is another reason why we might be feeling more anxious --about our careers, about our status in the world today, than ever before. And it's, again, linked to something nice. And that nice thing is called meritocracy.

A nation without memory is a nation without a future.

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.