I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

Your skin is so soft. Smells like...-She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. Sheer, unadulterated fear?

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.