To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Let’s face it: I want it all – just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we’ve done that, been there, and we don’t want to do that any more.
No, I don’t like legend. I mean, I don’t like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead.
When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she’s on the slide. It’s downhill all the way from then on. It doesn’t give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
It’s not an old movie if you haven’t seen it.
Acting is a life of rejection.
Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.
Growing up takes longer than you think.
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.
One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.