From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Put great car and value into what you do, and that value grows far more valuable as it spreads out beyond.

Our thinking absolutely affects the physical body.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.