That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Fear God and work hard.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.