I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.
You never really appreciate a thing until you have to give it up.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.