My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

It'll be a change, " says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

I'm a very wealthy man.

Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.