I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic chaos.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.