If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.