I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.