Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.