The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Smiles are the language of love.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.
I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.
Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.
Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.