Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

When GOD opens a door and it looks dark on the inside. Don't fret. You are forgetting one thing: you are light and only when you go in does it light up.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.