You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.