“I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.”

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.

I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.

Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.

I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.

Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.

I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.

Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to “‘clean'” it, and suddenly you can’t find anything?

Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that.