All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

EH.MA.GAWD.

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'