People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.