There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

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.

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.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

God opens the door so that we can establish His kingdom on earth

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.