Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don’t apologise, that’s my life.
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
We don’t go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!
Nobody “becomes” a character. You can’t act unless you are who you are.
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don’t know anything about it. They don’t want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.
It really don’t matter what you’re thinking about, as long as you’re thinking about something.
What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I’m sure will pass.
I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o’clock in the morning and you’re not in school.
Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.
It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it’s vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
You’ve seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!