The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Leave the body in such a way that the Supreme Power gets notified and becomes aware, attentive and receptive to receive us, the way a child returns back home after decades of touring.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.