I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?” “Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.

I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.

I left to go off and do other things. In terms of the group, I'm definitely the boss. I wouldn't say they were scared of me, but they listen to what I have to say.