An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.