The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

Perfection is that to inspired with your self

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.