Virtue is not photogenic.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Good manners are never passé.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.