I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.