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

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

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.

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

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.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” “Oh?” “The taken. The uninterested.” “As opposed to… you, Gabriel?” “Well, yes.

It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.