Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

The divinity you seek is born with you.

Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.