I have disassociated myself from that book.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Life is a series of dogs.

Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

Now that I'm here, all I wanna do is get better. I wanna be the best I can be.

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.