Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.