Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

What matters is what we make of our existence.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

I'm only doing whatever the next role calls for.

Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.