Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
I don't watch television.
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.
You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long theyd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.
If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh. . . only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
I have worked with some very great directors.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.