Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Trust no one, I scold myself. Even if they smell good.

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another.

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.