"It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor."

“Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?”

“Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.”

Source : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson 'Dwight Morrow' (1935) ch. 3

“Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

“In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.”

“In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.”

“I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.”

“An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.”

“I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.”