Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Timing is everything, as you know.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

There's the silver lining I've been looking for.

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time!

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

There was something very special about Doctor Who, and I did miss it a lot.