An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

None of them knew the color of the sky.

Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.

Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.