I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.

For of all gainful professions nothing is better nothing more pleasing nothing more delightful nothing better becomes a well bred man than agriculture.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism or justice or liberty by quoting from Webster.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.