The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.
When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!. . . You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!
When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.