[. . . ] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.
I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?