Even though I can't dance, that's, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.

Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.

I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.