The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

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.

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

When angry count four when very angry swear.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.