The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of. . . Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.
You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.