Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Love is an art and this love lacks artists.

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.