In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

There was only so much television you could do.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

We live to give.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.