Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].