You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

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.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

I like to sing love songs.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.