I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

That means nigger citizenship!!!

That means negro citizenship … By God, that is the last speech he will ever make.

Sic temper tyranis! The South is avenged!

Lincoln’s talking nigger citizenship!

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.

If the worst comes to the worst, gentlemen, I shall know what to do.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues; and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.