The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

I'm interested in villainy.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

I've gone to prepare a place for youBut I will come back again.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.