The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful."Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine.

The only person you have to convince is yourself.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward