I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home.

Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.

A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

If I was to model after someone's career, I would want to model after Justin Timberlake's career.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.