Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

The Present day optimists invent a lieand the pessimists hide the truth

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.