I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Don't be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.

The purpose of living is living for a purpose.

Close your lips in anger, open in admiration

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.