"The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician."

“People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.”

“I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We don't need to be feminist in my generation.”

“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”

“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.”

“Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.”

“The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.”