You can forgive yourself a great deal.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.

Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

I'm sure Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen think I'm garbage.

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Good girl doesn’t exist; you just have to choose between bad and worse.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Hatred which could destroy so much never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.

I always respect a woman.

Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

People are going to be getting ready for spring cleaning soon.

Tell me what you brag about and Ill tell you what you lack.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

For in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.