The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our hands" -

You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws.

words are a border collie’s worst nightmare.

Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.

Peace is never more than one thought away.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.