Quotes

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

All men are wired to be in control of what's going on in their life.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.

I've certainly never been dying to go to England my entire life.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

That was one of the lessons I had to learn - just relax and play. Don't worry about what's happened in the past; don't worry what's going to happen in the future. You are playing a game you dreamed your whole life about playing. There's no sense in ruining it by worrying or doubting.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

I left Brazil with the mentality of wanting to win in life.

Lopetegui called me and convinced me to go to Porto. It was the best decision of my life.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

There was no one moment when I decided I would spend my life acting. I am not certain that I will. Acting has never been a consistent passion. I have done it since I was young - so I have been acting for 30 years - but intermittently. I always had other jobs, joys, and creative outlets.

I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'