Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

Theater helps people keep sane.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

The career 500th home run for Michael Jack Schmidt!

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.