I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.