An actor should be judged by his performance only.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.