It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.

Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.