The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Maybe a relationship is just two idiots who don’t know a damn thing except the fact that they’re willing to figure it out together.

I fell in love with melancholy

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.