I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life