We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.