How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Now I can tell you something dirty. I like men who have a foot fetish. I absolutely think it's the most charming thing. It's just so romantic.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I am nothing; nothing is everything