Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.