The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

A man should be what he can do.

She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Chemistry does not guarantee compatibility.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.