A man should be what he can do.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Sarcasm is waster on the young.

...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...

All can I say is that exams are damn pathetic

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

I like people who like Plato.