Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.