You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

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.

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

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.

Perception is reality in the absence of fact

How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings?

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.