With strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain and weather any storm.

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.