Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.