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.

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

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.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.