My father got along with everyone.

There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.

My father was a great actor.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

I do not write for an audience

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!