Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.