I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.