Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Museums, I love museums.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

Nothing important is completely explicable.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.