Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)