While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

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.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.