We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

Theater helps people keep sane.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

If you encounter defeat, you must persist to be a winner.

...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Don't make the process harder than it is.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."