Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I don't know much about sports.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

Our reaction and attitude to persecution will determine if we are really ready for big things or not

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.