Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.