I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field. . . Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it. '
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.