The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.
You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.
You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.
Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.
I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.
I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.
Tris. ” I keep staring. “Tris. ” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
I'm a guy who doesn't like to be alone, and the joy that my friends pass me, with them being always by my side, is gigantic.
The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.