These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Make the second 50 the best 50

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!