The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.

...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.