I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

I can't speculate on what did or did not happen. I only know what I said and what I intended to convey.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.