Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Have a vision. Communicate it clearly. Pick the right people and put them in the right jobs.

It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.

You save 15 more minutes of sleep if you are a man and you don't have to shave.