"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."

"There's no truth anymore."

"I think everybody's nuts."

"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually."

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."