In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

'Cause whatever you love can be taken away, so live like it's your dying day.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

I think eyebrow gel is genius.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

With the happiness ecstasy and power you gain from meditation you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Prevention is better than cure.

I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.