It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

Failure is success training.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11 o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.