Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

If the mind says the injury is nothing, it will mean nothing. If the mind says competitions are nothing, it will mean nothing.

It's very strange to wake up in my own bed, as weird as that sounds, because I'm always on the road.

Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonald's.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Words are illusions.

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say,...

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

In England, it's usually cold. So surfing is more of an adventure where you're floating around in a big, dark, stormy sea rather than the California notion of girls in bikinis on beaches. It's really...

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.