Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Alfred Hitchcock:Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
James Baldwin:- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
- There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
- There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
- What we play is life.
- You blows who you is.
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Robert Redford:- Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
- I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
- Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
- Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
- I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
- I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
- I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
- If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.
- It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
- Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
