To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

Success in life is about obsession

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.