There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting it, they have to punish themselves, and it turns into this cycle of failing and falling lower and lower.
I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.
After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.
Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.