I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.