Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!