a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.