I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.

You are always going to love him, " she said. " You're stuck with that.

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.