The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.