I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.