I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

Museums, I love museums.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

Develop success from failures.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.