The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.
His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.
Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.