We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment freeze reflexes breed mistakes. Worse its contagious.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.

Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.