I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

What's skateable is limitless by design.

Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet...if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.

I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

Social change comes through people.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.