I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Expectations create and shape reality.

Love protects and preserves in all times.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.