Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.