You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

Music promotes spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

The lens is a tyranny.

The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.