Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

A man should be what he can do.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

When I admit my own imperfections, it doesn't mean I am a bad person.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.