When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Abundance is living the life you were born to experience.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Rummy is played by more people in more ways than any other game.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.