If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

You know, I love acting.

Perfection is out of the question.

Never pray for life to be easier, but pray for courage to go on and still enjoy every moment of beauty.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.

(She grabbed him for a bear hug.) Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.