“I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.”

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?

They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.

Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.

You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.

I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

Either I act or I die.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example a cross between pippi longstocking and the wicked witch of the west would obviously give us marcie millar

If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it’s good water. But they’re OK paying for it.

It’s hard to see someone with a ‘perfect’ body and be like, ‘Why can’t I be like her?’ But that person was born to be who she is, and you’re born to be who you are.

I’m going to come out and tell it like it is.

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.

I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Everybody is not going to like it, but I don’t care if they like or not. I’m Bush, so if they don’t like it resign.