“I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.”

I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.

There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.

I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

But if i hadn’t fallen, i wouldn’t have met you.

Are you keeping anything else from me? Im keeping a lot of things from you. Like? Like the way i feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.