The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I've played everything but the harp.

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

I don't write about my life in my column.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

I don't watch television.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.