With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.