Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.

When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

You're weak. Be strong and it's easy.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

We become what we pay attention to.

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.

The best style is the style you don't notice.