“Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!”

I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.

I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.

The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.

My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.

If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!

I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I’m very happy with what I’m doing right now.

Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.

Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.

“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.