If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with...

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.