You can never turn your back on the ocean.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

You don't just... just float someone in the air like that!" she shouted, so beside herself she was almost frenzied."Why? Is there some human law against it?

When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

One age is like another for the soul.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.