I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."The Panopticon

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Dreams aren't memories," he says.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.