There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

There was only so much television you could do.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

Choosing wealth as a goal requires facing everything about your money bravely, honestly, with courage -- which is a very, very hard thing for most of us to do.