If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

The significance of life is living.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.