Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.