When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.