I don't like to read novelizations of movies.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Strive to see the best in others, situations, and experiences.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.