I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.