To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny change life as we change clothes.

Look theres no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

We all who live have A life that is lived And another life that is thought And the only life we have Its the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Fraternity has subtleties.

Direct experience is the evasion or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.

Our personality should be impenetrable even to ourselves.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.