The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

By words the mind is winged.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.