Try not to be concerned with it. It's a spiritual thing. Don't look for the results, don't live in the payoff. Live in the moment which is a spiritual principle. Live in the moment and let the results take care of themselves. It's in the hands of God. The rest is all ego. And I have learned, over the years, it's got nothing to do with me. As my life is none of my business.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.