When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I can be a cruel person.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.