I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

You have to stand out, do something, to be remembered.

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.