“I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.”

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Fear and anxiety are consequences of your imagination running wild. You are suffering a situation that may never happen.