“I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,”

You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.

We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.

I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.

I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”

They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.

It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.

The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.