If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night, I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

It's June in January Because I'm in love It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.