I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

You've always done as you pleased, Princess. I can't change you, nor do I want to. You're strong, a fighter. And I've never wanted another woman as I want you.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.