I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.

In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!