I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
One of the joys about acting is researching.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.
The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.
Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction. . . . Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.