The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Privacy is not negotiable.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Enthusiasm is life.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Create a tattoo or something inspired by tattoos.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.