"What can you say about a guy who lets himself be saddled with a baby when he's thirty-five and losing his hair? Love? Forget about that till you're past seventy, and by then the parts will have stopped working anyway."

“If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I was also in love with the English language.”

“. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .”

“Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.”

“No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.”

“I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com

“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”

Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press

“I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.”

Source : "Lena Headey Talks Sexy Vamps, Her New Flick and More". Interview with Stacie Ponder, www.amc.com. 2009.