Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.