He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simply: you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.