When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.

I have no news of my coming or passing away--the whole thing happened quicker than a breath

Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.