“To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.”

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?

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.

In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.

I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it’s all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.