I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Actor’s life is very long.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.