I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it.

If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution, " the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!