the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.