We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

He looked at me like I was beautiful.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.