Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

I've had a very full career in the theatre, on stage, in films and on television.

I have a suicide impulse.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

I like to be who I am.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.