The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Sustainable life is Victory.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.