Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Most of us. . . are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.