Be prepared and be honest.
Showbiz is great if you're successful.
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all. . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face. ' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?