Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

I have to act to live.

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.