If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

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.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

I want to just do my job and do it well.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?