I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.