In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
My family is more important than my party.
In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.
At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.
